Catherine features a Shout-Out to the "Justin Bailey" code, with a character whose full name is Justin Bailey.The reason why the password is so destructive is because it not only has an invalid starting location, but it also changes the total ingame time value (which is used to determine the ending you get) to 2.86 billion, which comes out to 314.5 years of total playtime. Depending on the method used to play the game, it will cause negative effects of varying severity, with the most minor of them resetting the game back to the title screen, up to hardlocking the entire system it's being played on with the potential to cause some damage to the system itself in case of the 3DS Ambassador version at its worst. Still others have searched the game far and wide for the elusive Narpas Sword.
Nintendo themselves claim it stands for Not A Real Password (the joke being it is a real password).
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Others say the code is short for North American Release Password, inserted into the American version for debug purposes. Some say the first three letters stand for Tohru Narihito, who converted the game to cartridge format from the original Famicom Disk System version (which used battery backup instead of passwords). There are several hypotheses regarding the code's name. It's hardcoded to bypass the usual password logic and checksums, and grants Samus infinite health and missiles, the Ice Beam, and every power-up in the game with the exception of Energy Tanks and missile expansions. A Metroid cheat code that is not a coincidence but which remained undetected for years is NARPASSWORD.but it was later proven to be a coincidence - the password system is coded so that many English word combinations produce valid results. Various hypotheses arose as to who or what "Justin Bailey" was, note One which was submitted to Nintendo Power claimed that the phrase is actually three words, "Just In Bailey", as "bailey" is allegedly outdated slang for a bathing suit. JUSTIN BAILEY - A password beginning with this sequence lets a player start Metroid with an unarmored Samus and much of the game completed.